The OECD Learning Compass offers a forward-looking framework to help students navigate an increasingly complex and fast-changing world. It highlights the importance of student agency, well-being, and the development of key competencies for shaping both personal and collective futures. However, for students to truly benefit from this vision,…

Since the January 2021 attack on the US Capitol, the influence of White Christian nationalism (WCN) has become even more pronounced and concerning. Adult educators and the public need a better understanding of whether and how WCN can be unlearned, and the roles ordinary citizens and adult educators can play in this process. After describing WCN…

This article explores how Third Way policies have weakened class consciousness in education and how a Marxist model of education offers a powerful alternative to this weakening. By blending neoliberal approaches with social democracy, the Third Way promotes individualistic and market-oriented reforms in education, which have been found to deepen…

Purpose: This study aims to analyse the existing literature on factors motivating higher education institutions to disclose their Sustainability Development Goals initiatives. Design/methodology/approach: This study used an interdisciplinary systematic review to develop a review protocol for Sustainability Development Goals and higher education…

This paper aims to explore how faculty in business and related fields perceive adaptivity and their own adaptive expertise in a university based in Central Europe. We focused on the qualitatively different ways in which faculty members' adaptive expertise can be conceptualised. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 31 participants, the…

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in language education necessitates new forms of digital leadership, yet research on how language teachers develop e-leadership competencies remains limited, particularly in non-Western contexts. This study investigates how Vietnamese EFL teachers develop and exercise e-leadership competencies in…

[Editors' abstract, 2025: In this article, Florence Howe describes the operation, purpose, and élan of a significant venture into the politics of education: the Mississippi Freedom Schools, which were organized as alternative spaces of learning in the segregated South to empower students to become active agents for social change. Drawing on her…

Whole-school approaches (WSA) are an established tool for tackling a range of public health issues, and are increasingly advocated as a strategy for preventing gender-related violence. However, global research surrounding the use of WSA in this field remains limited. This paper presents a narrative literature review in which we critically…

Higher education institutions are attempting to incorporate responsible management education (RME) into both their philosophies and their curricula. This phenomenon is most pertinent to and most prevalent in business schools. This paper proposes a six-stage model, derived from relevant change management and institutionalisation models and…

During 2019 the accreditation of a Catholic school serving students in special education, the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools report recommended implementing a Positive Behavior Intervention Supports program (PBIS). This qualitative case study aimed to build on the growing research on Positive Behavior Intervention Supports and…

The theme of the conference seems to assume that most countries had functional and well-performing education systems before the COVID-19 pandemic. All they need to do now is to recover and restore their systems to their former glory. Evaluations of the South African education system between 1994 and 2022 have been extremely negative. The question…

The purposes of the study were (1) to examine the effects of a youth network on vulnerable youths' social adaptation knowledge, (2) to examine the vulnerable youths' satisfaction with the youth network on social adaptation development, and (3) to examine the effects of a youth network on vulnerable youths' changes in behaviors of social…

Background: This article considers the speculative and pedagogical character of campus abolitionist organizing. Extending education research into the knowledge (re)producing functions of radical activism, we draw upon the Black Radical Tradition to theorize the intersections of learning and imagination in both activism and education. Method: The…

The iPhone 62 has just been released. Political gridlock and the governmentally approved process of locking immigrant children in cages continue ad infinitum. Public schools resort to primarily remote learning as pandemic viruses ebb and flow. University students study post-postmodernism on campuses that remain on stolen Indigenous land. In this…

Curriculum reform was high on the agenda of South Africa's post-apartheid governments. Yet as time passed, the initial reforms were seen as increasingly problematic, especially when pedagogical realities met policy priorities. There was reluctance on the part of policymakers to give up what was seen as the democratic imperative behind the reforms.…